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    The White Veil of Colonialism Europeans who practiced colonialism were motivated by the 3 C’s Culture, Capitalism, and Christianity, which determined the philosophy and the methods they used to conquer foreign lands and people. With each conquest, European colonist inflicted their perceived superior value systems with on their purpose of for colonization. Their cultural value system led to the idea that one’s race determined one’s rank in society. This is significant, because now we have this…

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    Kevin Parlato Global Context William Strutt Painting “Black Thursday” Australia has a unique but dark past when it comes to its colonial history. Remnants of this past still linger as significant problems for the modern era. These problems expose themselves in many aspects of the Australian culture such as politics, social ques, and art. If a foreigner, such as myself, takes a look at Australian art, I take it in at face value. It would take lots of research to determine any cultural…

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    Tourism and Pacific communities have a complex and multi-faceted relationship. There are both positive and negative implications of the tourism industry, which are not only economic and environmental, but also deeply cultural. As globalisation has made foreign travel to the Pacific easier, cheaper, and more widespread than ever before, the effects of tourism have never been more relevant. As many island nations in the Pacific are relatively isolated, have limited resources, and rely…

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    A Rose Role Model

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    Lionel Rose was an Aboriginal Boxing champion, he was a role model for Aboriginals aswell as all Australians, A national hero to all. Born on the 21st of June 1948 he was raised in a society that was divided by racism, doubt and economic disparity or difference. For Aboriginals their struggle to gain social justice had been ongoing since 1770. Lionel lived in a poor aboriginal settlement South of Melbourne in Jacksons Track, Near Warragul he had the ambition to get away and make something of…

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    Writing Award in 1989. In 1997 Bandler was awarded the Human Rights Medal from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission was presented a 'Meritorious Award in Honour and Gratitude for a Life of Courageous Advocacy for Justice and for Indigenous People, for Human Rights, for Love and Reconciliation ' in 2000 by Nelson Mandela. In Faith: Faith Bandler, gentle activist, Lake says ‘Through her teaching in Australia, Faith’s message about the importance of human dignity for all regardless…

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    What do Australians stand for? Is it that all Muslims should go back to their home country because they are terrorists? Or that equality is an important part of our country and something that we should strive for? I believe that a reasonable percentage of Americans would agree with the first one but here in Australia we strive for a country with equality. To get equality I believe justice, culture and opportunity are a part of what Australians stand for and a first step to equality, you don’t…

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    The Impact of Residential Schools Residential schools were made to kill the Indian in the child claiming to make Canada a better place. The Government of Canada thought that the residential schools would help the Native families, but the way the children were treated and kept at the schools the Aboriginal culture is still suffering from the violence and abuse. Aboriginal parents don’t know how to treat their children because of their experience from Residential Schools; the violence was passed…

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    Aboriginal Land Rights

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    title rights to an area overlapping the Wik claim included land where two leases had been issued by the Qld government. The wik people had to prove through historical documents that they deserved rights to the land.The case went in favour of the Indigenous Australians and was also a great advance in the land rights movement.But they weren 't trying to keep the people off their land they just wanted the government to know it 's their land therefore they aren 't in charge of the land the wik…

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    Environmental racism is apparent in regions where Indigenous peoples reside and even though an environmental justice movement have addressed the issues concerning the affects of environmental racism, further steps must be taken to diminish such acts. Environmental racism is ultimately a form of racial and environmental…

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    Guaman Poma De Ayala

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    idea of obedezco pero no cumplio and its effects over the Spanish hegemony over the indigenous population. My primary sources have evidence of transculturation models over the Indies including the Spanish hegemony and effect on this indigenous population. Americans and Europeans cultures transformed and created New cultures that were neither indigenous nor European. In this paper we will be exploring the indigenous and European interactions in south America after the encounter during the mature…

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